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Coffee Specs
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Grade |
Specialty |
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Category |
Invalsa Superior,
Better (AA) |
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Screen |
16/17 |
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Altitude Grown |
Above 4,000 feet |
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Cupping Scores |
80
(Minimum), Range: 80.5 - 83.5 |
Sample Cupping Score from our
Head Cupper
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Aroma |
5.5 |
Flavor |
6 |
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Sweetness |
6 |
Aftertaste |
5.5 |
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Acidity |
6 |
Balance |
6 |
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Body |
5.5 |
Overall |
6 |
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Total |
46.5 |
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Total Score |
36+46.5 |
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82.5/100 |
Comments:
Citric sweet chocolate,
creamy body, good flavor, nice acidity, clean finish, vanilla chocolate,
well balanced, orange tones. |
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| Best |
| 8 |
| 7 |
| 6 |
| 5 |
| 4 |
| 3 |
| 2 |
| 1 |
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This is our Specialty Roast for the special occasion or for
the discerning coffee drinker. This is unblended, single-terroir coffee. Our
Specialty Roast is artisan-roasted from professionally graded and cupped,
specialty
Bolivian green coffee beans. These selected coffee beans
are 100% Arabica (Tipica 85%,
Caturra 15%)
and came from the high-altitude Colonias of Siete Estrellas and/or San Ignacio in the Caranavi region of
the Yungas in Bolivia. They were processed by their respective cooperatives. They were shade-grown, depulped
and washed using pure Andes glacier-melt water, sun-dried on wooden table tops
and hand selected by "Palliris" (Aymara Indian women food graders).
We will custom roast these beans for you and send them in
heat-sealed, foil bags with a one-way air valve, which lets the CO2 out, but not the air in. This is significantly more expensive than the standard Kraft paper
coffee bags available in the supermarket and most coffee shops, but it maintains the high-quality of our roasted coffee.
Unless
you tell us otherwise, we will roast these coffee beans to the level that our
Roastmaster judges best for the type, density and crop-year of the bean. Enjoy
our coffee!
Because of its flavor and aroma (see
cupping notes above) we prefer a moderately dark (#45 Agtron/SCCA) roast for
these coffee beans.
However, we can custom-roast them to
your taste (light, medium or dark).
We are fanatics about green coffee quality, roast freshness
and, ultimately, coffee flavor. We only sell what we drink. We are importers of
high-quality Bolivian coffee and distributors coffee
roasting and brewing equipment.
The green (unroasted) coffee beans
used for our Specialty Roast are certified Organic by Ceres, GmbH (an USDA agent).
However, our roasted coffee beans are not yet certified organic as we are
working on the certification process.
If you are serious about your
coffee (as we are!), buy roasted coffee whole bean (in our opinion, buying
whole bean is the only way to buy
roasted coffee). We suggest that you get a burr coffee
grinder, specially if you want to make Espresso.. A burr coffee grinder is
good for all kinds of coffee brewing methods. Some people, however, cannot
afford (or do not want to spend the money) for a burr coffee grinder, so they
buy a blade grinder. A blade grinder is fine for drip coffee makers (what most
Americans use) and French Pots, but it is not good for Espresso. We
have a nice selection coffee grinders (both blade and burr) in all price
categories. Please check them out under the "Coffee
Gear" button.
If you would like to experiment with your own coffee roasting
at home, please visit our other, secure online store,
Invalsa Coffee for green coffee and
home coffee roasting equipment.
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